Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition.

  • -- Thomas Clarkson 克拉克森

如果奴隶制在那里被废除,(在这种情况下,我们完全有理由认为奴隶制会及时产生)请记住,贵格会有废除奴隶制的好处。

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It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.

对剧作家来说,这是一个非常艰难的时期。百老汇几乎已经成为一个音乐喜剧主题公园,所有这些长期运行的节目。

Before we ask ourselves what we can do under the circumstances, we must ask ourselves whether we might not be able to change them.

在我们问自己在这种情况下我们能做什么之前,我们必须问自己我们是否可能无法改变它们。

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

文学同时以错误和真理的形式存在;它既背叛又服从自己的存在方式。

Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.

即使在最好的情况下,成长也有一些该死的悲剧。